A German’s View on Islam

A German’s View on IslamA man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a number of large industries and estates.When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism.“Very few people were true Nazis,” he said, “but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care.I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen.Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.”We are told again and again by ‘experts’ and ‘talking heads’ that Islam is the religion of peace, and that the vast majorityof Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant.It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectra of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.

The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history… It is the fanatics who march.. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide… It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups

throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave… It is the fanatics who bomb,behead, murder or honor-kill… It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque… It is the fanatics who zealouslyspread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals… It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill andto become suicide bombers.

The hard quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the ‘silent majority,‘ is cowed and extraneous. Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were

responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant.

China’s huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people. The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a war mongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered

and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 millionChinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet.

And who can forget Rwanda which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were ‘peace loving‘? History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason we often miss the most basic and

uncomplicated of points: Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence. Peace-loving Muslims willbecome our enemy if they don’t speak up, because like my friend from Germany , they will awaken one day andfind that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.

Nigerians, Algerians and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late. As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts; the fanatics who threaten our way of life.

"Because of the tender mercy of our God the Sunrise from on high shall visit us, to shine upon those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace" (Luke 1:78-79).